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The Becoming Thin Podcast

The Hidden Enemy Sabotaging Your Weight Loss

The Becoming Thin Podcast

Chris Terrell

Health & Fitness

4.9 • 564 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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In this episode of the Chris Terrell podcast, Chris shares his personal weight loss journey, having lost 125 pounds after years of yo-yo dieting. 


He delves into the concept of 'turning pro' inspired by Steven Pressfield's book 'The War of Art', discussing the mindset shift needed to tackle weight loss seriously. 


Chris emphasizes the importance of overcoming self-sabotage and resistance, seeking help from professionals, and not letting external circumstances dictate one’s progress. He also highlights the necessity of building a supportive network and surrounding oneself with 'only supportive people' (OSP) to successfully navigate the weight loss quest.


00:00 Welcome to the Chris Terrell Podcast

00:36 Chris's Personal Weight Loss Journey

01:27 Embracing Unexpected Changes

03:55 Overcoming Failure and Shame

05:20 The Importance of Turning Pro

09:36 The War of Art: Combating Resistance

20:05 Join the Community and Share Your Thoughts

22:12 Amateur vs. Professional Golfers

23:20 The Professional's Preparedness

25:08 Self-Sabotage and Resistance

25:52 Seeking Help and Mentorship

28:05 Building Your Support Team

31:15 The Importance of Humility

37:28 Facing Resistance and Fear

41:55 Conclusion and Final Thoughts


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0:00.0

From the headquarters of the Guild of Champions, this is the Chris Terrell podcast, and I am your host, Chris Terrell, and welcome to another week of your weight loss quest.

0:19.1

How did this last week go for you, champion?

0:22.9

What new challenges did you encounter?

0:25.6

And what failure did you go through, by the way?

0:26.8

I'd love to hear about that.

0:31.1

But what I really would love to hear about is the lesson that you've got from that failure.

0:35.8

Come on now, don't let a perfectly good failure go by without you getting your lesson.

0:37.9

Now, afternoon here, I've lost 125 pounds myself after an entire adulthood of chronic yo-yo diet, up down, up, down again

0:46.4

before I finally got sick and tired of being sick and tired, and I made some permanent, meaningful,

0:51.9

and actual changes to my lifestyle, to my habits, to my routines,

0:56.2

to my environment, community, and to my system of beliefs.

1:00.0

Because it's all of those things that created me.

1:02.9

And if I was going to become something different, I was going to need to go back and change

1:07.3

those things.

1:08.5

And I did.

1:10.1

And when I changed those six things, my life started to change those things. And I did. And when I changed those six things,

1:12.7

my life started to change as well.

1:15.7

Lots of different ways.

1:17.6

Many of them were ways I hoped that it would change.

1:21.0

And many of them were in ways that I never,

1:23.3

never imagined was possible.

1:26.1

Never imagined.

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